UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15244800
Format:
2 DVD-Video (je 90 Min.)
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NTSC
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DVD-R
ISBN:
158587454x
Content:
Die dreistündige Dokumentation von Michael Prazan beschreibt im ersten Teil "The Mass Graves" auch anhand neu aufgefundener Bilddokumente die Arbeit der vier Einsatzgruppen A bis D hinter den Linien der deutschen Wehrmacht in der Sowjetunion. Diese Todesschwadronen des Dritten Reiches ermordeten von 1941 an 1,5 Millionen Menschen, vor allem Juden, aber auch Roma, Kommunisten, vermeintliche Partisanen und Kriegsgefangene. Der zweite Teil "Funeral Pyres" zeigt die Arbeit beim Verwischen der Spuren, die nach der Entdeckung der von der Sowjetunion ermordeten polnischen Offiziere in Katyn und dem weltweiten Widerhall darauf begann. Anne Nelson stellt in ihrem Artikel "The Obligations of History" den Film in eine Reihe mit Alain Resnais' "Nuit et Brouillard" und Claude Lanzmanns "Shoah": "Einsatzgruppen takes a place of honor in a series of documentaries that have made a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust. In the past, these have largely dealt with the phenomenon of concentration camps. Alain Resnais's 32-minute Night and Fog (1955) brought images of the death camps to a mass audience a decade after the war. Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) was a nine-hour exploration of the role of the bystander... The role of Einsatzgruppen as a historical corrective will depend largely on its distribution. It has been broadcast on French television and screened at festivals, but Prazan admitted he was having trouble placing it in wider distribution. Ironically, it cannot be broadcast in Germany, due to laws that prohibit showing the faces of individuals implicated in war crimes." (Anne Nelson: The Obligations of History. Museum of the Moving Image) (DVDbiblog)
Content:
In June 1941, Nazi mobile killing squads, known as Einsatzgruppen, were dispatched throughout Eastern Europe. By the spring of 1943, the 3000 members of the Einsatzgruppen, led by highly-educated officers and aided by local collaborators in each country, had systematically murdered over a million Jews and tens of thousands Roma, handicapped, partisans, Communists and Soviets. Who were these men who organized and carried out mass murder at close range? Prazan's definitive masterwork is one of the essential films documenting the Holocaust and features a powerful array of astounding, never-seen-before film and photographs (some in color) discovered by the filmmakers in Eastern European archives. Prazan interviews a slate of internationally renowned historians, including Christopher Browning, Christian Ingrao, Martin Dean and Ralf Ogorreck, along with Holocaust survivors, witnesses and perpetrators (several filmed using hidden cameras). The film's scope is broad, treating the Einsatzgruppen's leadership, rank-and-file and collaborators, the machinations of their operations and the attempts soon after to dig up and destroy the evidence. The later part of the film explores efforts to bring members of the Einsatzgruppen to justice. Benjamin Ferencz, prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen trial, is interviewed at length. (National Center for Jewish Film)
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Orig.: Frankreich, 2009
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Mass graves (1941 - 1942). -Funeral pyres (1942 - 1945)
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Dt., engl., und franz., mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
German
Keywords:
Einsatzgruppen
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Kriegsverbrechen
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Deutschland. Wehrmacht
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DVD-Video
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Drittes Reich
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Besatzungspolitik
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Kriegsverbrechen
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Osteuropa
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DVD-Video
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Deutschland
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Besatzungspolitik
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Kriegsverbrechen
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Osteuropa
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DVD-Video
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SS-Einsatzgruppen-Prozess
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Interview
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
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Interview
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Interview
Author information:
Ferencz, Benjamin B.
Author information:
Prazan, Michaël
Author information:
Browning, Christopher R.
Author information:
Ingrao, Christian
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